Anyway it was the last ball of the 2nd WC final
Vanue: Lords
Bowler: Mike Handrick
Viv scored 139 or 135 i think, i read about this innings and in particular this last shot for the first time in 6th grade and in 9th grade i watched that innings myself!

my god. what a shot!
when he came here he played one magnificent shot to. vivs first ball, a pretty slow bowler, viv steps forward, plays what looks more like a forward defensive than a drive, and the ball sails over the longest boundary on the field. what amazed me was that the shot had absolutely no follow through.

Mike Hendicks bowled the 60th over of the west Indies innings in the final. On the last ball, with Richards batting on 132, he tried to bowl a middle stump yorker, richards anticipating that a yorker/or a low ful toss was coming, moved to the off side, completely exposing his stumps, the ball was just a trifle fuller than yorker length but would be considered impossible to contact from Richards' position but he almost straight drove it over square leg.

It was the most amazing cricket shot we had ever sen in our lives and it was talked of for years after.

Javed's six off Chetan Sharma at Sharjah (and the psychological impact of it) made us think of it more in later years

I have seen many others try to play it since Viv in 1979 but the one who brought it off, not as spectacularly as Viv, was Yashpal sharma, again against england and again at the world Cup in the 1983 semi finals. But the ball was fuller.